I have been registered on this site since August 2, 2004, exactly 4 day less time than Mark Segal. I am not hiding behind a user name, that was the standard during the registration at that time. I found it offensive that Mark was impugning Shades of Paper's intent and reputation and I decided to correct his misinformation. The Canon large format printers are excellent and that pricing is a good opportunity for somebody that was looking to buy a printer. I'm happy with my Canon iPF8400 so I don't fall into that category. I have read many posts where Mark is admonishing posters or adopting a position of moral authority. I decided to call him out on this particularly blatant instance. I also acknowledged that Mark has contributed a lot of excellent information to this forum and I would add that on balance he does more good than bad and I would be sorry if he decided to stop contributing.
Hopefully, this puts this smoldering flame war to bed.
If you aren't hiding behind a screen-name, tell us who you are and what moral authority you have to sit in judgment and opine in public whether I admonish posters or adopt positions of moral authority. It's just rubbish. Sure, periodically I may come down a bit hard on the kind of crap you're dishing out, so please be advised that as circumstances warrant I shall, without compunction, continue to do so. As far as I'm concerned, there is no free-pass on nasty personal attacks that break-out on this Forum with increasing frequency these days. As for the issue of screen names - there are perfectly fine contributors who write-in useful stuff behind a screen name, and there are others who use it to sling mud from behind the shield. The latter are particularly obnoxious and if you ask me I would like to see screen names discontinued here altogether. It would make the Forum a saner place. But that's another talk-show.
For the record, if it needs to be said at all, I didn't have and I do not have any issue with Shades of Paper as a company. They reside in the US, I reside in Canada, so it doesn't pay for me to shop there due to shipping and clearance costs; that said, I've heard nothing but good things about them and have no reason to doubt they are a fine company. That pricing looked really fantastic so I visited their site to have a closer look at this deal and I found the information unclear in respect of what differs between the two offers of the Pro-2000 (a printer which I reviewed on this website). This can easily happen with the best will in the world, so I thought it useful to advise readers to be sure they know exactly what they're buying; I expect that not everyone understands that the second roll holder is an option. It really is as simple as that and for you to imply that I'm trying to impugn the reputation of the seller is just unwarranted total nonsense.
You started the flame war - and it belongs to you. You can put it to bed by apologizing for misunderstanding and misrepresenting my intent here, not by inflaming it further with more insults as you did above. You can't in the same breath fan a flame war and put it to bed. All you do is make the bed burn. Or, if you just let all this pass into the ether by posting nothing more on this topic it would also serve the purpose perfectly fine.